Taxation   of the Minister of Finance. It is time that he was held accountable for bilking so many hard working Canadians out of billions of dollars every year”.

Transit Passes   do not have a Reform government in power until the next election. What we have is a Liberal government that is taxing hard working Canadians into poverty. Let us look at the Liberal record. Income taxes under the Liberal government are 56% higher than the average of our G-7

Tax On Financial Transactions   or an editorial calling on the government to raise taxes or to bring in another tax. Yet we are discussing how we can take even more money out of the pockets of hard working Canadians. I have heard other members talk ad nauseam about James Tobin, the International Monetary Fund and the Asian

Employment Insurance   question that we keep asking and do not get an answer from the government. Why will the government not consider giving the money back to the people it belongs to, hard working Canadians?

Employment Insurance  ”. He had to be told by the HRD minister that he does not pay into the EI fund. Millions of Canadians pay into this fund and in fact overpay into this fund. Why will the Prime Minister and the finance minister not do the right thing and simply give the money back to hard working

Employment Insurance   wage gain. I ask the finance minister: Why does he not simply do the right thing, the thing he has promised but has not fulfilled, and promise today that some real tax breaks are going to come for hard working Canadians?

Budget Implementation Act, 1998   will work. I would like to bring in another point of view. My riding, like many ridings in Canada, is made up of hard working Canadians, Canadians who, due to the high taxation of this government, are struggling to put food on the table. They do not have the money to send their children

Income Tax Amendments Act, 1997   for all Canadians. For example, an increase in personal income tax exemptions to $10,000 would immediately remove two million low income Canadians from the tax rolls and reward all hard working Canadians. Even though it is a Progressive Conservative idea we do not mind lending

The Budget   turn to the question of taxation. Let me begin by reaffirming our goal. It is to reduce taxes. It is to leave more money in the pockets of hard working Canadians. A government's tax policy must be an essential element of its overall social and economic policy. Our tax policy

Supply   in the areas of little need in which they doled out millions upon millions of dollars to their political friends and special interest groups. That is not how we reached this balanced budget. We reached this balanced budget through Liberal policies on the backs of hard working Canadian

Organized Crime   blue line, these men and women who walk the beat and patrol the neighbourhoods of Canada, and they are tasked with enforcing the laws that we make in this House. Without the active support of these hard working Canadians, many of whom put their lives at risk time and time again

Supply   working Canadians, people like contractors who provide services for other people. It is a natural tendency to say “I am so overburdened by the regressive taxation system in this country, I will tell you what. I am going to do that for cash”. They make cash deals. So the GST drives

Income Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 1997   for policy reasons to tax that pension system at the front end when the taxpayer earns the money and pays into the system rather than when he retires and collects from it. Imagine the case of a hard working Canadian taxpayer who goes across the border to find gainful employment

Income Tax Budget Amendments Act, 1996   because of the changes the Liberal government is bringing in now. We will be put in that same situation. The member from Winnipeg has been honest with Canadians in pointing that out. There have been $10 billion in increases on hard working Canadian taxpayers. Ultimately the Canada

Supply   the government introduces a plan that will hurt job creation. The finance minister said the CPP premium increase was not a payroll tax, that it was an investment. I would like him to convince hard working Canadians who are deeper in debt than they have ever been and are having difficult